Monday, April 19, 2010

Weekend Recap

First off, thanks for participating in Three Things Friday! It was fun learning random facts about all of you!

The weather was absolutely gorgeous!! I don't remember the last time we've had weather this nice in the spring. I usually hate spring since it's kind of cold, wet, and very bleh. This year it has been awesome!!

Here is my weekend recap in bullet point style!

This weekend I...

used coupons when grocery shopping for the first time ever! Confession - I never was a price checker or frugal about grocery shopping all all. Now I am paying more attention to how much I am spending. It's an adjustment but it's good for me to be more mindful of how much I am spending.

went over to my brother's for a bbq. We had steak, baked potatoes, and asparagus. Yum.

was once again amazed by my nephew's intelligence/memory. We were talking about our favorite meals and he said his was pizza. I told him that wasn't my favorite since I can't have it and he says, 'Because you can't have flower, right?' I had quickly mentioned that almost 2 weeks ago when we went out for lunch at Chipotle. I was impressed that he a) remembered, and b) knew that pizza had flour in it. I think that's pretty good for a kid who isn't even 5 yet!!

made this beef stew recipe. It's so not stew season but it makes the BEST leftovers and I didn't want to have to cook after work this week! I do so much better when I do all of my cooking on Sunday!

went for a lovely 4 mile run around my favorite lake and ran an average pace of 9:08 minute miles which is pretty good for me! My knee is doing better - hopefully it will be back to 100% by the time marathon training kicks off on June 7th.

21 comments:

Oh man I just saw your post below about your gmail account being hacked- I didn't get an email from you but one of my friends also got hacked and I was like what is this when she sent me an email. Hers didn't seen to mess up her computer so hopefully thats true for you too :)

Your nephew is soo cute. I find kids sometimes have the crazyest memories some time, I guess because they have less annoying stuff in their heads! One time I was playing a game with my kids that used empty containers and I saw an Oikos container and said "oh thats my favorite yogurt"- then like 3 months later one of my kids had the same yogurt and was like LOOK its your favorite yogurt- I'm like seriously!? I had almost forgotten I said it!

It was a beautiful weekend, wasn't it? We worked in the yard and a trying to unpack. It will take us longer to get settled back in to being home than I imagined. I do believe Andrew is a exceptionally bright young man. Have a good week and let's plan bananagrams!

Yikes! I just saw about the hacking too - not fun!! Your nephew is so cute, and the weekend sounded good - our highlight was our first ballroom dance class (hilarious) and new Dr. Who. And having the guts to ask my massage therapist to hang out!! :)

Way to go on your 4 mile pace! That is awesome! I'm so happy to hear that your knee is getting better.

I'm the same with you about the coupon-shopping! I try to save money with groceries, but I hate coupons, because I don't like carrying around a bunch of pieces of paper. Messy! But my grocery store (fry's) has the option to download them onto your "shoppers card" so the coupons are on my keychain. Pretty cool!

Sounds like you had an awesome weekend. I'm really itching to do some bbq ing! Manfriend needs to get that grill going one of these evenings. I'm too much of a wimp to do it. It's always amazing how much little kids remember. My mentee is reminding me of that. She pays attention to some of the tiny details.

I didn't get an email either! That is so disgusting, though! Did you have to do anything to stop it? I loved the story about Andrew - he's so observant and sweet! I am anxious for the summer months to get here so we can see the grandsons more often!It won't be long now!

I have trouble with coupons too. I feel like that sounds silly, as its not like I am all about throwing money around. But it takes organization that I dont really have to keep track of the coupons, have the right ones ready,etc.

My highlight of my weekend? I want to say the Cubs game but it was COLD!! Mexican with the husband was a close second.

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Hi, I'm Lisa! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm a 30-something living in Minneapolis, MN which is a city I adore. I have many loves but some that top the list are running, reading, traveling and all things French.